page_title: Maruf al Rusafi
hierarchical_section_title: Maruf al Rusafi
caption_attribution_description: English: Ma’ruf al-Rusafi at ceremony to lay the foundation stone to a new school in Baghdad in 1929. العربية: معروف الرصافي يلقي قصيدة بمناسبة وضع حجر الاساس لافتتاح مدرسة جديدة في بغداد عام 1929
context_page_description: Ma'ruf bin Abdul Ghani al Rusafi was a poet, educationist and literary scholar from Iraq. He is considered by many as a controversial figure in modern Iraqi literature due to his advocacy of freedom and opposition to imperialism and is known as a poet of freedom.
context_section_description: Ma'ruf bin Abdul Ghani al Rusafi (1875–1945) (Arabic: معروف الرصافي) was a poet, educationist and literary scholar from Iraq. He is considered by many as a controversial figure in modern Iraqi literature due to his advocacy of freedom and opposition to imperialism and is known as a poet of freedom.
caption: Ma’ruf al Rusafi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a new school in Baghdad in 1929
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